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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)soːn vɑn ˈrɛin]; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative.
Rembrandt in 1632[]
When Grantville arrived in 1631, Rembrandt was a young man who was just beginning to get serious notice as an artist. Like many other artists, he was faced with works that he had not yet done, but for him, that was almost his entire body of work over 30+ years. He was placed in the awkward position of being famous not for what he had already done, but for what he had done over a lifetime in another world.
By 1634 or 1635, he had decided to deal with his "future" works by seeking out the situations that had led to them so he could re-do them, and that he would let posterity be the judge of which was better.
In "Postage Due"[]
Rembrandt painted Anne Jefferson in the colors of Orange for downtime's first postage stamp, one of four. He then donated the original to Harry Lefferts, who sold it and two other portraits to Cardinal Richelieu, gaining funds for the London Tower jailbreak.